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Andy Lester
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I've been a professional programmer for 33 years. I work in Perl and a big pile of legacy PHP.

My book Land the Tech Job You Love is available from Pragmatic Bookshelf.

I created and maintain the programmer's grep-like search tool ack

My blog about tech life, including job hunting, is blog.petdance.com.

Twitter: petdance, beyondgrep and perlbuzz

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What should you do in the event you are accused of plagiarism?
Nov 25, 2012
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Can we prevent some of the low-quality questions from entering our system?
Oct 18, 2010
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To get all questions about "Ruby" that is unanswered
Oct 18, 2010
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Please let me sync interesting & ignored tags between sites
May 3, 2010
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What can we do to stem the tide of Wordpress questions?
Oct 16, 2010
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Questions linking to external web sites instead of showing code
Dec 11, 2012
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How do I set a variable to the output of a command in Bash?
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How do I add an empty directory to a Git repository?
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How can I validate an email address using a regular expression?
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How can I sanitize user input with PHP?
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How can I speed up my Perl program?

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